ROY COOPER Governor MICHAEL 8, REGAN Secretary LINDA CULPEPPER, “interim Director Water Resources Environmental Quality May 21, 2018 CERTIFIED MAIL 7016 2140 0000 0562 4196 RETURN RECEIPT REQUESTED Bizzell Davis BID Farm 1 1180 Lanefield Rd Warsaw, NC 28398 SUBJECT: Lagoon Sampling - April 13, 2018 BUD Farm I Permit # AWS310050 Duplin County Dear Bizzell Davis: ‘Thank you for your cooperation in the Division's lagoon waste sampling efforts on April 13, 2018. On that day seven teams of Division staff sampled 35 farms and a total of 55 waste lagoons. Multiple teams were necessary to assure that teams followed proper biosecurity protocols to protect your animals. 1 apologize for the short notice that was provided to you by our staff. It was our intent to do the sampling as efficiently and effectively as possible with as little disruption to you and other operators. Staff notified you as soon as possible once we were comfortable that weather would cooperate and we had staff prepared to complete the desired sampling on a single day. Complete results of the sampling are available on the NCDA&CS Agronomic Services Division PALS website and can be accessed there at your convenience. http://www neagr.gov/agronomi/pals/ ‘The Division submitted the samples to the lab on April 13, and the standard waste analysis was performed the following week. The certified results are available to use for loading rate calculations in you waste application records. Our staff followed sampling protocol established by NCDAS&CS Agronomic Sampling Folder No. 6, revised April 2014, a copy of which is included with this letter. You may at any time resample your lagoons to establish updated results if you feel more representative sample is desired for future application events. One of the intents of the sampling effort was to look at observed changes in lagoon sampling results in a relatively short period of time. Our records show that a previous sampling event took place on March 17, 2018. Results of the April 13 and March 17 sampling events are shown on the following pages for each agoon sampled on your farm. The results show a surprising difference in the PAN concentrations as well as other macro and micro nutrients. It is unlikely that a lagoon make-up will change significantly in a month without significant operations event occurring like a lagoon sludge clean out. “Nothing Compares Ste of North Carlin | Envronmeatal Quality | Division of Water Resources ‘Water Quality Regional Operation Section 1636 Mail Service Center| Raleigh, Noch Carolia 27685-1636 s19-7079129 Ol‘Lagoon Sampling ~ April 13, 2018 Page 2 Lagoon Name: BJDI ‘Sample Results (mg/l, PAN in Ibs./1000 gallons) 3/17 4/13, 3/17/2018 4/13/2018 Difference | % change 344 671 127 23% 23 28 05 23% 37 92 35 150% 484 950 465 96% 107 173 67 62% 23 B 30 212% 26 36 29 111% 22 146 12.4 374% 03 17 15 356% 05 47 42 832% 02 72 70 3505% 04 0.9 05 105%. 148.0 228.6 80.5 4% 76 71 O1 2% 05 0.0 “04 “95% BID2 ‘Sample Results (mg/l, PAN in Ibs./1000 gallons) 3/17 - 4/13 3/17/2018 4/13/2018 Difference | % change | 513 628 115 22% 21 26 05 22% 40 EY 2 4% 498 933 435 87% 110 151 4 38% 26 40 14 55% 27 40 13 48% 24 32 09 36% 03 06 03 84% 05 08 02 41% 02 15 13 592% 4 0.9 05 107% 1519 242.1 | | 902 59% 75 77 02 2% 05 0.0 05 99%‘Lagoon Sampling — April 13, 2018 Page 3 LagoonName: _ BJD3 ‘Sample Results (mg/l, PAN in Ibs./1000 gallons) 3/17 - 4/13 3/17/2018 4/13/2018 Difference | % change 538 628 90 17% 22 26 04 17% 40 31 3 22% 488 982 494 101% 108 152 3 39% 25 30 5 19% 27 aD 15 53% 25 29 oa 17% 03 0S 02 55% 06 06 0.0 % 02 13 10 455% 04 09 05 125% 148.9 246.2 97.2 65% 75 79 O4 5% 06 0.0 “06 -99% Three lagoons were sampled at your farm. Concentrations reported for the three lagoons in March 2018 were noticeably more similar to one another than compared to the April sampling results. The variation found in the April 13 sampling analysis is much more consistent with normal variations found in swine lagoon effluent is NC. ‘The following two tables show the differences reported for your lagoons for the March and April Sampling Events.